Dive Change Name to DIIV, Share New Single

Dive, the atmospheric guitar-pop project of Beach Fossils member Zachary Cole Smith, have changed their name to DIIV. Smith said the change comes "out of respect" for "the original Dive," a Belgian industrial band formed in the early 1990s by Dirk Ivens.

The name change does not signal a changed creative direction for the band. "A name is nothing," Smith said. "I don't really give a fuck what the band is called. I originated this project in a bedroom with no internet and didn't know it would ever leave."

Smith originally named the group Dive after the Nirvana song, and due to the fact that all four members were water signs. "The word was an element of what inspired the project in its genesis," Smith said, "but we've outgrown the name and its associations."